TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilbert,Sandra M.
TI  - Death's door: modern dying and the way we grieve 
SN  - 0393051315
AV  - HQ1073 .G54 2005
U1  - 155.937 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Norton
KW  - Death
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Grief
KW  - Mourning customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-553) and index; Pt. 1; Arranging my mourning : five meditations on the psychology of grief --; 1; Death opens --; 2; Widow --; 3; Yahrzeit --; 4; E-mail to the dead --; 5; Writing wrong --; Pt. 2; History makes death : how the twentieth century reshaped dying and mourning --; 6; Expiration/termination --; 7; Technologies of death --; 8; Technologies of dying --; 9; A day in the death of... --; 10; Millennial mourning --; Pt. 3; The handbook of heartbreak : contemporary elegy and lamentation --; 11; On the beach with Sylvia Plath --; 12; Was the nineteenth century different, and luckier? --; 13; "Rats' alley" and the death of pastoral --; 14; Monsters of elegy --; 15; Apocalypse now (and then)
N2  - "Critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship to death through literature, history, poetry and societal practices." "Seneca wrote, "Anyone can stop a man's life but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it." This inevitability has left varying marks on all human cultures. Exploring expressions of faith, burial customs, photographs, poems, and memoirs, Sandra M. Gilbert examines both the changelessness of grief and the changing customs that mark contemporary mourning."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -